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Pete McCann: Most Folks
by Jeff Dayton-Johnson
Pete McCann is a versatile guitarist with a daunting list of sideman credits: Kenny Wheeler, Maria Schneider, Dave Liebman, Kenny Garrett and many others. Most Folks is his third date as leader. As an artistic statement, it's organized around the notion of sketches, portraits and tributes to “folks" whose lives have intersected with McCann's.
Pete McCann: Most Folks
by Jerry D'Souza
Pete McCann confesses to a love of music from several different streams which influenced him as he was growing. The guitarist opens up a few of those influences on Most Folks with a skill which reveals him to be not only a good listener, but also a writer with the ability to build a striking composition ...
Pete McCann: Most Folks
by Troy Collins
Pete McCann, a ridiculously versatile guitarist, takes his varied interests to extremes on this Omnitone debut. McCann's third album as a leader is his most diverse collection of songs yet. He explains his stylistically unbound aesthetic this way: “I like music; I like all different types of jazz.... I love it all. I don't like to ...
Art and Architecture
By Pete Mills
Label: Summit Records
Released: 2004
Track listing: Dot Com, Seven Shades of Blue, In Walked Bud, Spin Dri, Chelsea Bridge, April Tune, Pumpkin Shoes, Remembrances, Clubfoot, Isfahan.
You Remind Me Of Someone
By Pete McCann
Label: Palmetto Records
Released: 2001
Track listing: Knew Blues; You Remind Me Of Someone; Pollock; Falling Grace; Mr. Fritters; Inquisition; I Love You; Letting Go; Ornery; The Patriot.
Pete McCann: You Remind Me Of Someone
by Todd S. Jenkins
Guitarist Pete McCann has gathered a beautiful assortment of songs and assembled one heck of a choice quartet to interpret them on this admirable disc. McCann is a big-eared, big-toned player who has served quality time with the Maria Schneider Orchestra, Bobby Previte, John Patitucci, Kenny Wheeler and other modern jazz stars. He and bassist John ...
Pete McCann: Parable
by Glenn Astarita
What is it with these unassuming, clean cut looking guys like Bill Frisell and Pete McCann? They can churn out blistering, Hendrix-like guitar licks and “out-rock” most of those thin, longhaired rock stars yet, render smooth, articulate and at times difficult jazz motifs. Pete McCann is among the new breed of jazz guitarists who demonstrate this ...
Pete McCann: Parable
by Joel Roberts
One of the best and most ambitious albums to appear last year was Tom Varner's Window Up Above, a wildly eclectic overview of the entire history of American music, from Civil War songs to Duke Ellington to Hank Williams. The guitarist on that release was Pete McCann, who brings the same broad range of musical interests ...
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